WordPress for Education: Multisite

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Released

6/2/2016

WordPress in the Classroom: Multisite shows educators how to create and manage multiple WordPress sites from a single WordPress install by enabling the hidden Multisite features of WordPress. As an intermediate-level course, it assumes a basic working knowledge of WordPress, including WordPress plugins, themes, and templates. The techniques can be used for managing any type of network of WordPress sites, but author Chris Mattia concentrates on two scenarios: student-run blogs and websites for each class or section you teach. He also helps you set up a template that fits your teaching style, manage users across multiple sites, and leverage smart plugins such as MultiSite Clone Duplicator. These tips will help you streamline the technology, so you can spend more time engaging with students.

Topics include:

Creating a test environment to configure WordPress Multisite

Designing a Multisite network

Manually creating a Multisite network

Creating new sites

Managing access and privacy settings

Adding and managing users

Managing plugins and themes across multiple sites

Creating a site template

Aggregating posts in a Multisite network

Supporting students

Exporting student sites

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 55m

Duration

75,778

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- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Chris Mattia,and welcome to WordPress in the Classroom: Multisite.In this course you'll learn how to enable and usethe hidden multisite features of WordPress.We'll begin with the basics of creatingand running multiple WordPress sitescontained within a single multisite network.I'll show you how to save time managing the users,plugins, and themes across several WordPress sites,all at the same time.This course focuses on empowering you, the teacher,to spend more time engaging with your students,and less time focused on the technology.

To do this we'll look at two examplesof using multisite in your classroom.In the first example we'll create a core site templatethat perfectly fits your unique teaching style,and then use that template to quicklyset up core sites for all of your classes.Next, we'll set up a multisite networkthat's capable of hosting sites for each of your students,empowering them to take control of their own learning.Throughout this course we'll explore several pluginsto help you manage your network of sitesand get the most out of using WordPress in your classroom.

We have a lot to cover so let's get startedwith WordPress in the Classroom: Multisite.